by Claus Mikkelsen on December 19, 2011
Why again? Well, it was about a year and a half ago when I last blogged, and much has changed since then, although the subject is still front and center. David Merrill has certainly discussed this numerous times as well, including this always-amusing post from March.
by Claus Mikkelsen on November 9, 2011
Fall is in the air, but HDS will be turning up the heat in San Jose this week with our first analyst day. Kicking off on Thursday, November 10th, HDS will host two days of executive presentations, financial updates, and updates on our product strategy from CEO Jack Domme and other key HDS leaders. Throughout the event, we will cover our strategy for infrastructure, content, and information cloud with help from a few gracious customers who have also decided to participate.
by Claus Mikkelsen on October 31, 2011
Ah, yes, Halloween. Time to pick up that empty wine glass and start knocking on neighbors’ doors. I’ll leave the candy for the kids. But there is a “trick or treat” to this blog.
The “trick” was to get you to read this far, and the “treat” will be unfolding over the next few weeks and months.
I’ve blogged, written and spoken a lot recently—not so much about the data explosion (we all talk about that)—but the changes in technology that are allowing it, and in many cases almost encouraging it, to occur. Most recently, Ian Vogelesang on this page about disk drive futures, and this past April I blogged about how Moore’s Law might be tilting a little faster these days. Recently, I read that we might be seeing up to 100TB disk drives by the year 2020.
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by Claus Mikkelsen on September 30, 2011
On a few occasions I’ve blogged about the drive industry, drive performance, and the effects it has on the storage array business in general, but below is a guest blog from my friend and colleague Ian Vogelesang on disk drive trends. He originally had posted this on our internal HDS website, but it’s too good to keep wrapped up, so I’m sharing it here for general consumption. Make sure you have some time on your hands, as the post is quite lengthy (but worth it!)
by Claus Mikkelsen on September 7, 2011
No, not the Archie Bunker kind, but the “let’s build the HDS family” kind.
So, as many of you have already heard, today HDS took a great next step in our relationship with BlueArc (check out the announcement here).
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by Claus Mikkelsen on August 31, 2011
Like my colleague Ken Wood, I too lied in my last post.
by Claus Mikkelsen on August 24, 2011
It’s been two weeks since returning from Thailand on my Habitat for Humanity build. After the 17-hour flight home from Thailand to the US, I had a 48-hour turnaround before heading off to Mexico City for the week to participate in another one of our remarkably successful executive briefing centers with Hu Yoshida (see his post on this trip).
by Claus Mikkelsen on July 23, 2011
So it’s time for that all-too-rare vacation to somewhere. I’ll undoubtedly trigger an out-of-office message that says I’ll not be checking email, voicemail, or any other kind of “mail”, but probably will sneak in an occasional digital-check, if I can. That said, I’ll also be traveling in places where electricity, much less wireless, should ever be assumed.
by Claus Mikkelsen on July 20, 2011
I’m sure many of you have seen EMC’s latest product announcement, the VMAXe. It’s basically a “mini” VMAX which makes the name rather oxymoronic (VMAXmini?), I think. But I’d like to use that announcement to point out a basic difference in the storage strategies of our two companies.
by Claus Mikkelsen on May 27, 2011
First, let’s get rid of some old business.
In some interesting timing, my last blog post questioned the future of Moore’s Law. The date of my post was April 26th. On May 5th, Intel announced the 22nm 3D tri-gate transistor, which will be available in their upcoming Ivy Bridge chip in the second half of this year.
Claus Mikkelsen
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